Acer plans to release 3-D Screen laptop
June 12th, 2009 | | RajivAs per the recent report, hoping ride a recent surge in movies and TV shows filmed in 3-D, Acer Inc. plans to release a notebook PC this fall equipped with a 15.6-inch 3-D screen.
Campbell Kan, vice president of Acer’s mobile computing unit, told the Taiwanese magazine, Digitimes on Monday that the notebook will have built-in software that can correctly display 3-D movies but also convert regular 2-D movies into 3-D.
A request for confirmation with Acer officials in the U.S. was not returned immediately. Acer is not the first company to offer 3-D-enabled notebooks. Sharp Corp. released its Actius RD3D notebook with nearly identical 3-D rendering capabilities in 2003.
Biotech researchers, car designers and architects are the targets for the Actius RD3D. But unfortunately, it was discontinued within few years of time span even within that specialized business audience it did not work out.
In the year 2006, 3-D laptop was panned by sister magazine PC World as being hard on the eyes and for being one of the 25 worst tech products of all time for its poor 3-D effects. Acer notebook is expected to have a better chance to work apparently aimed at a consumer audience.
Lots of Hollywood movies were filmed in 3-D released in last three years, which includes, animated movies such as Monsters vs. Aliens, Bolt, Chicken Little and Up, action-heavy or gory movies such as Journey to the Center of the Earth, My Bloody Valentine and Scar, and concert films such as U2 3D and Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert.
Steven Spielberg and James Cameron, directors and many more directors of Hollywood have given their support in 3-D films. Recently, number of network TV shows and commercials broadcast has also been in 3-D. TVs with 3-D screen are also built by the consumer electronics companies like Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Technnologies Inc.
Kan said, “Users of Acer’s first-generation notebook will still need to wear stereoscopic glasses for the 3-D to be effective, though future models should be able to show the content in 3-D without special glasses”. Kan said that the notebook will ship with Windows 7 and be available at the end of October. Prices and names still remains mystery.
[Via: infibeam]